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Rising food prices are climate change's first tangible bite into UK lives | Damian Carringtonhttps://www.theguardian.com/environment/damian-carrington-blog/2012/oct/10/food-price-rise-uk-crop-harvest
The UK's dreadful harvest from a sodden summer is a warning that the impact of global warming is getting close to home<p>Are rising bills at the supermarket checkout turning out to be the first tangible impact of climate change on the daily lives of all Britons? It very much seems so.</p><p>The damage wreaked by the <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2012/oct/10/food-prices-rise-wettest-summer?intcmp=122">dismal summer of 2012 on UK harvests</a> was revealed on Monday and will push food prices up. In these austere times, with <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2012/aug/21/councils-invest-food-banks-welfare-cuts">food banks</a> feeding the hungry, that is going to hurt.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/damian-carrington-blog/2012/oct/10/food-price-rise-uk-crop-harvest">Continue reading...</a>EnvironmentFoodFood & drink industryFarmingClimate changeWed, 10 Oct 2012 11:03:00 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/environment/damian-carrington-blog/2012/oct/10/food-price-rise-uk-crop-harvestPhotograph: Simon Dawson/Getty ImagesWheat grain harvested near Cambridge but the overall UK yield was sharply down due to wet weather in 2012 Photograph: Simon Dawson/Getty ImagesPhotograph: Simon Dawson/Getty ImagesWheat grain harvested near Cambridge but the overall UK yield was sharply down due to wet weather in 2012 Photograph: Simon Dawson/Getty ImagesDamian Carrington2012-10-10T11:03:00Z